AI News & Launches

The article 'The Great AI Weirding,' from deliprao.substack.com, sheds light on how AI influences unproductive competition in academia, industry, and personal growth. It emphasizes the obsession with quantifiable metrics dictating careers and how AI may exacerbate such trends, reducing the intrinsic value of scholarly activities and codifying productivity norms, ultimately impacting individuals' meaningful pursuit of knowledge.

Apple's research indicates a shift toward running large language models (LLMs) directly on iPhones, aiming to catch up with Silicon Valley in AI capabilities. With advancements such as enabling inference on devices with limited memory and optimizing for efficiency, Apple positions itself for potential AI-driven innovation without relying on cloud processing.

ChatBacklinkBot is an AI-powered tool designed to assist SEO professionals in discovering valuable backlinks and extracting key webpage analytics like keywords and email addresses, thereby enhancing their SEO strategies.

BotStacks is an AI-powered platform for designing, building, and deploying AI assistants with ease, supporting no-code bot building, AI model integration, chat UI customization, and sandbox prototyping.

Fireworks.ai announced the Alpha release of their new function calling model and API with capabilities similar to GPT-4. It enables models to call external APIs, crucial for applications like real-time data access and dynamic agents. The API is built on a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B model, trained to interact and call functions. Fireworks.ai showcased the model's effectiveness with evaluations indicating its strength in multi-turn conversations and intent detection, outperforming non-fine-tuned models. Developers can integrate this API, compatible with OpenAI's API, into their systems to enhance application capabilities.

Alter AI is an AI-powered platform that transforms selfies into professional headshots using machine learning models. The service offers various pricing plans and is designed for professionals who need high-quality headshots for platforms like LinkedIn and social media.

Drawww is an innovative drawing application designed for the iPad that leverages the power of real-time AI to enhance your creative process. With a focus on speed, security, and creativity, Drawww offers a cutting-edge experience with features like instant AI-driven results, offline access, unlimited layers, best-in-class tools, and an AI-Ready file format.

Magic Hour provides AI-powered tools for creators to produce high-quality videos. It offers features like Video-to-Video style transfers, Animation, Face Swap, and Text-to-Video creation. The platform emphasizes simple UX and automation to assist creators.

DSCopilot is an AI-powered solution designed to assist dropshipping businesses. It offers features like AI-enhanced branding, smart merchandizing, and margin-boosting supplier selection.

Amazely is an AI-powered growth platform designed to help small businesses enhance their online presence, improve customer engagement, and increase sales. The platform offers features such as social media expansion, sales boost through showcasing top reviews, Google ranking improvement, review collection automation, negative review management, personalized responses, and seamless integration with business workflows.

Dr. Change is a service designed to help individuals improve their habits and productivity. They offer a range of tools including a chat with Dr.C on ChatGPT, Habit Method Cards, a blog with insightful articles, Quazilla for quizzes, and apps for iOS and Android platforms.

Blindfold.ai is a platform that provides an AI-driven solution to create impactful resumes tailored to specific job applications while reducing unconscious bias in hiring by masking personal details such as name, location, and social media.

OpenAI has started implementing mitigations for a data exfiltration vulnerability in ChatGPT, where attackers could send data to third-party servers using image markdown rendering. The mitigation includes a client-side validation API to determine the safety of URLs before rendering images.

Opencord.ai offers a platform for mobilizing a collaborative team of creative agents to generate value on social media around the clock.

OpenPipe announces Mistral 7B Fine-Tune Optimized, a model superior to GPT-4 in fine-tuning tasks. This new variant is the result of model merging and extensive evaluations, designed to maintain out-of-domain knowledge while optimizing fine-tuning. Released on Hugging Face and as the default model on OpenPipe, it opens up possibilities for efficient AI solutions.

Coscientist, an AI-driven system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers with NSF support, has successfully planned and executed real-world chemistry experiments autonomously, demonstrating potential to accelerate scientific discoveries and reliability of experimental results. The system utilizes large language models and software modules to perform complex tasks like palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, crucial in pharmaceuticals and OLED technology, showcasing the integration of AI into scientific research and its ability to democratize access to scientific explorations.

This paper discusses the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in defining the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining how science fiction influences the public perception of AI dangers and opportunities. Rather than using classical sci-fi scenarios, it suggests looking at AI through the works of Jorge Luis Borges to gain new insights into the relationship between language modeling and artificial intelligence.

PowerInfer is a high-speed Large Language Model (LLM) inference engine for personal computers, utilizing a CPU/GPU hybrid approach with consumer-grade GPUs. It significantly reduces memory demands and optimizes efficiency for model accuracy and speed.

Dokkio offers AI-powered tools that integrate with cloud storage to enhance team collaboration by organizing, finding, and managing files across different services.

Fliki is a cloud-based platform enabling users to create videos and voiceovers using AI-powered text-to-speech and text-to-video technology. It allows simple and quick creation of high-quality content aimed at marketing, education, and various other sectors with no technical skills or software download required.

Channel 1, a Los Angeles-based news station set to launch in 2024, aims to be the first U.S. national syndicated news channel using AI-generated anchors. Powered by AI, these digital avatars are designed using doubles of real actors and will be featured alongside human anchors for major stories. Channel 1 founder, Adam Mosam, emphasizes responsible use of AI technology and transparency regarding AI-generated content amidst concerns about 'fake news' in journalism.

Stanford researchers discover over 1,000 child sexual abuse images in the LAION-5B database, used to train AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion, raising concerns about the potential for AIs to create realistic abusive imagery.

Mamba-minimal is a simple, minimal Python implementation of the Mamba model for linear-time sequence modeling with selective state spaces. It aims to provide readable and annotated code with equivalent numerical output as the official implementation for both forward and backward pass.

Twixie bridges imagination and technology, offering a secure and engaging platform designed for kids to explore AI through interactive chats and creative activities, building future-ready skills while ensuring parental peace of mind.

Knowlee is an AI-powered learning and knowledge management tool designed to enhance personal growth and productivity. It offers features that help users retain, manage, and recall information efficiently.

Linnk is an AI-powered tool that provides instant summaries and exposes the core arguments within articles for enhanced understanding. With clickable summaries, organized facts, and a multi-language feature, it allows efficient comprehension directly within the browser through a sidebar integration. Seamless navigation between a summary and the full text in any language is designed to optimize the reading experience.

Piccopilot offers an AI-powered platform for enhancing product imagery in various industries like beauty, electronics, and furniture. With a history of serving over 100K users, it's trusted for quality. Features like one-click background removal and AI templates make it standout.

Snowball Club is a decentralized finance community that aims to simplify and streamline the process of finding and investing in high-quality crypto assets. It leverages blockchain technology to provide a secure and transparent platform.

Krea is an AI platform that enables seamless creation and integration of machine learning models into existing systems, aiming to facilitate the deployment of AI solutions in various industries. Their focus is on simplifying the process for users to benefit from the capabilities of AI.

Shader, the first no-code AR creation tool facilitated by AI, offers a unique way to customize personal looks and enhance audience engagement through AR effects. Currently available in private beta, Shader app can be downloaded from the App Store.

Aragon.ai offers an AI-powered Christmas photo generator that transforms selfies into festive scenes without waiting in lines. Just upload six selfies and choose from a variety of styles like Snowy Scenes or Santa Outfits. The technology boasts over 15 million photos generated, easy usage, and high-resolution outputs.

Phron.io is a next-gen AI-powered stock screener app designed for modern investors, allowing users to swipe through potential investment opportunities with an easy-to-use interface. Offers customizable screening, deep dives into financials, and advanced analysis tools.

The paper, titled 'LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory,' discusses methods to run large language models (LLMs) efficiently on devices with limited DRAM capacity. The authors propose strategies to store model parameters on flash memory and optimize data transfer to enable running larger models.

The Federal Trade Commission has banned Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition technology for five years, citing deployment without reasonable safeguards leading to false identification of consumers, particularly women and people of color, as shoplifters.

VideoPoet, developed by Google Research, is an advanced large language model designed for zero-shot video generation. Capable of generating high fidelity, temporally consistent videos from text prompts, VideoPoet leverages an autoregressive language model integrated with multiple media modalities. Key features include long video generation, controllable video editing, and zero-shot capabilities in tasks such as text-to-video, stylization, and camera motion control.

Science fiction author Cory Doctorow examines the AI tech bubble in his commentary for Locus Online, distinguishing between bubbles that leave lasting value and those that do not. Highlighting examples like the dotcom bust and cryptocurrency frauds, Doctorow questions the long-term viability of AI companies, especially those promising productivity gains at the cost of quality.

Discussion on the subreddit r/LocalLLaMA focused on the reasoning behind the specific sizes of large language models such as 3B, 7B, etc. It covered aspects like GPU compatibility, the influence of the LLaMa paper, and quantization effects on model parameter counts.

TuneNN is a public GitHub project hosting a transformer-based network model for pitch detection, targeting multiple musical instruments. The model leverages various spectrum and cepstrum features to capture timbre dynamics over time.

QuickBlox offers Chat UI Kits integrated with AI for various platforms, allowing developers to create chat interfaces swiftly. These customizable components provide seamless integration with powerful SDKs, saving time and resources for businesses.

Researchers explore the embedding space of GPT-J revealing a structured 'semantic void,' where distances from the center relate to varying thematic patterns. No clear explanation is provided, but the findings point to an emergent ontology in the model's high-dimensional space.